The mass amounts of this unnatural sweetener currently in the American diet are responsible for “creating a new population (suffering from) obesity, hypertension, high triglycerides, liver toxicity and early death.”
When Dr. Dana Flavin was asked by
Life Extension magazine several years ago to write an article about high fructose corn syrup, she approached the idea a bit skeptically. Corn syrup, after all, had been around for ages, so could HFCS be much different? "I thought, that's ridiculous," she said, recalling how even her mother had used corn syrup to make cake icings.
But what Dr. Flavin, a former Food and Drug Administration toxicologist and physician subsequently learned about the "danger" and "toxicity" associated with high fructose corn syrup "flabbergasted" her. "When I began to read about it, it was like removing the wool from my eyes," she told Food Identity Theft in a phone interview from Germany.
Flavin is no stranger to interpreting scientific literature. The founding director of The
Foundation for Collaborative Medicine and Research, based in Connecticut, she is now headquartered in Germany researching the "basic molecular pathology" of diseases as well as the pharmacology of both natural and synthetic substances to treat and reverse ailments. Along with those obligations, she's an adviser to cancer institutes in Germany, where she is also a practicing physician, and currently collaborating with colleagues in Israel, the United States, Canada and England. Her conclusion on the numerous studies about HFCS are quite firm. For her there is no debate on how this ubiquitous sweetener is harming the health of people, especially the young.
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If we don't get this out of the American diet we are going to end up with a country of lazy, obese, sick young people...this is exactly where it is moving," she said,
"this is a horrendous problem...its toxicity is overwhelming and it's completely destroying the youth of the U.S."
Comment: Another possibility is that smoking is actually good for you!! For more information see:
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Pestilence, the Great Plague and the Tobacco Cure
Nicotine can boost blood vessel growth
Scientists Identify Brain Regions Where Nicotine Improves Attention, Other Cognitive Skills
Best to look elsewhere for the cause of heart attack:
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If you get a heart attack, insist on magnesium!
High cholesterol does not cause stroke (but carbohydrate does)